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Total number of records: 1859

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Archives88

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Brotherton Collection928
Herbert Read Collection773
English Literature104
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive101
Leeds Russian Archive74
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History66
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture37
Art and Antique Market21
LGBTQ21
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society8

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art1859
art, modern163
aesthetics93
advertisements82
decoration and ornament71
furniture62
architecture60
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painting55
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England119
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)420
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)183
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)114
Perry, Thomas Aloysius (1820-1907)82
Worrall, A82
Christie, Manson & Woods54
Sotheby'S (Firm)52
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)38
Victoria and Albert Museum23
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)21

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Salons de T. Thoré, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848

Thoré, Theophile Étienne Joseph (1807-1869)

1868

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History of art in primitive Greece : Mycenian art (v.1)

Perrot, Georges (1832-1914); Chipiez, Charles (1835-1901); Gonino, I

1894

Translator's note signed: I. Gonino.

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History of art in primitive Greece : Mycenian art (v.2)

Perrot, Georges (1832-1914); Chipiez, Charles (1835-1901); Gonino, I

1894

Translator's note signed: I. Gonino.

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Treasures of art in Great Britain : being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., &c., &c (v.1)

Waagen, Gustav Friedrich (1794-1868); Eastlake, Lady Elizabeth Rigby (1809-1893)

1854

A supplementary volume was published in 1857, under title: "Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain".

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Treasures of art in Great Britain : being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., &c., &c (v.2)

Waagen, Gustav Friedrich (1794-1868); Eastlake, Lady Elizabeth Rigby (1809-1893)

1854

A supplementary volume was published in 1857, under title: "Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain".

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Treasures of art in Great Britain : being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., &c., &c (v.3)

Waagen, Gustav Friedrich (1794-1868); Eastlake, Lady Elizabeth Rigby (1809-1893)

1854

A supplementary volume was published in 1857, under title: "Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain".

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Galleries and cabinets of art : being an account of more than forty collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, mss., &c., &c

Waagen, Gustav Friedrich (1794-1868); Waagen, Gustav Friedrich (1794-1868)

1857

Forming a supplemental volume to the "Treasures of art in Great Britain", three volumes.

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Practical essays on various branches of the fine arts : To which is added, a critical inquiry into the principles and practice of the late Sir David Wilkie

Burnet, John (1784-1868)

1848

Contents: Historical painting in England.--Portrait painting in England, with the comparative merits of Vandyke, Reynolds, Lawrence.--The treatment of pictures of fancy subjects, and familiar life.--T...

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Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des terms propres à chacun de ces arts

Félibien, André sieur des Avaux et de Javercy (1619-1695)

1690

Signed prelim. p. [8], Felibien. Dictionary: p. [465]-797. Marginal notes.

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Das Erklären von Kunstwerken

Wölfflin, Heinrich (1864-1945)

1921

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British galleries of art

Patmore, Peter George (1786-1855)

1824

Author from Halkett and Laing.

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